Very easy and simple to use. But veeeeeeeeery expensive in comparison to the real CC processors. If you want a contract free, no credit check service then they are for you but if you run a real business then look for a real processor. Especially if you have a high average per transaction value.

I've been looking to make the switch over to Stripe from PP. Wondering if you guys can share a little of what you had to do for PCI compliance? My understanding is there are a whole bunch of hoops to jump through and wondering how costly or time consuming they are.

I have been using Stripe for over a year, i could not be more happy, i 100% recommend stripe to anyone.

They are completely opposite to paypal, they won't bother you with shit, they won't freeze your account without reason etc. Support is great, everything is great about Stripe. I love them.

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This is exactly what I heard about them too, and am seriously considering implementing their payment gateways to my services, but still trying to pick out between a couple of them. Glad to see Stripe gets positive comments from fellow blackhatters as well.

Got to provide some documents to prove who you are via email. Nowhere near as time consuming as some of the real CC processors, it's a lot easier. I've used Payment sense, world pay and others in the past. Payment sense make you take an exam basically. But Stripe's % are astronomical in comparison. They are the low end high risk end of the market. They are to CC processing what Wonga are to loan companies.; They are easy to set up and more accepting but you pay for that. If you have a good enough business background to go with one of the established firms you'll save a hell of a lot of money.

For instance most CC processors will charge you a flat rate of no more than 50p for processing Debit cards. Stripe was charging me 5%! With an average transaction value of £200 meant they were charging me £10 (1000p). They refused to distinguish between credit and debit cards like all the others do, so for me it was 20x as expensive to process debit cards. And 5% is expensive even for creit cards, if you look around you can get 3%. 50p for debit cards is on the expensive side too, 30p is achievable.

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I SEE THEIR RATE IS LOWER NOW (2.4% +20P).

They still don't distinguish between credit and debit though. This makes them reasonable if your transaction values are low but a complete nightmare if they are high. With my £200 transaction value it would cost me £5.00 (500p) to process a debit card. Where as I currently pay 30p.

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Got to provide some documents to prove who you are via email. Nowhere near as time consuming as some of the real CC processors, it's a lot easier. I've used Payment sense, world pay and others in the past. Payment sense make you take an exam basically. But Stripe's % are astronomical in comparison. They are the low end high risk end of the market. They are to CC processing what Wonga are to loan companies.; They are easy to set up and more accepting but you pay for that. If you have a good enough business background to go with one of the established firms you'll save a hell of a lot of money.

For instance most CC processors will charge you a flat rate of no more than 50p for processing Debit cards. Stripe was charging me 5%! With an average transaction value of £200 meant they were charging me £10 (1000p). They refused to distinguish between credit and debit cards like all the others do, so for me it was 20x as expensive to process debit cards. And 5% is expensive even for creit cards, if you look around you can get 3%. 50p for debit cards is on the expensive side too, 30p is achievable.

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I SEE THEIR RATE IS LOWER NOW (2.4% +20P).

They still don't distinguish between credit and debit though. This makes them reasonable if your transaction values are low but a complete nightmare if they are high. With my £200 transaction value it would cost me £5.00 (500p) to process a debit card. Where as I currently pay 30p.

I have one business that uses 2checkout, which I'm not fond of given their ridiculous fraud protection that leads ot many false positives and causes a nightmare with clients. Respectively so given the fact that the fraud protection simply denies transactions over a mistype.

Stripe on the other hand is a blessing, it's been a great service so far, easy to integrate and has many tools such as Baremetrics that is built on top of Stripe.

To the person that says you can't differentiate between debit and credit that's incorrect. We've built our API to deny all Debit card transactions and VCC's.

I have one business that uses 2checkout, which I'm not fond of given their ridiculous fraud protection that leads ot many false positives and causes a nightmare with clients. Respectively so given the fact that the fraud protection simply denies transactions over a mistype.

Stripe on the other hand is a blessing, it's been a great service so far, easy to integrate and has many tools such as Baremetrics that is built on top of Stripe.

To the person that says you can't differentiate between debit and credit that's incorrect. We've built our API to deny all Debit card transactions and VCC's.

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Not sure what you mean? Why would you want to deny all debit card transactions???? Are you suggesting that you can tamper with the rate they charge you? Or are you suggesting you disabled debit card transactions? If so, why the hell would you do that? They refused to lower the rate on debit card transactions for me.

It's worth repeating for those of you who are inexperienced, there are much better options............ IF your average sales exceeds £20 ($, Euro, whatever). That is the point where you start mugging yourself. The higher your sale value the more you mug yourself. BECAUSE they charge a % on debit card transactions where EVERY other processor charges a flat rate of between 30-50 (pence or cents) per debit card transaction. By the time you reach a sale value of £40 you are paying 200-300%% what you would elsewhere. By the time you hit £100 it's around 500%. For me it would be around 1000% more expensive to use stripe.

They are a BOTTOM END option who prey on the lazy, uniformed or those with no other option like a payday loan company (in that respect). Saying their better than PAYPAL is like saying, provident is better than Wonga. They both package themselves as an easy option and then charge the earth for it. If you genuinely call yourself a business person, do it right from the start.

Stripe is the goods. I've been using them for about 1.5 years. Yes, a little pricey when compared to other cc processors but all in all a very good service. I would and have recommended them to friends and they've had the same experience. The 7 day hold is fine with me. Just make sure you have enough working capital to carry you thru the week so your business doesn't rely on daily or next day payouts.

I use both Stripe AND paypal. Just to ensure that buyers have their choice, pretty sure ive landed more sales just because they had the option to choose their prefered way. Wish there was a sms service that could take 60$ ++ in payment tho, that would help my sales alot!

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